Sloan's World

Sloan has made another Rock Star friend! After receiving an announcement from our new friend Megan Cutter (she did the Writing Workshop at Sloan's Reality Ministries Day Camp) that The Chris Hendricks Band was playing in Raleigh, we skipped out on music therapy, loaded up in the van with Noah, and hit the road. It was a great time! We saw Megan again and met her husband Barton, who is also a writer. And the band!!! Sloan was instantly focused on the music, and it was definitely excellent music. You can check out their website to hear a sample, or watch this intro video to the band. During the break, we got to meet the band and talk and hang out a little bit. Then after the show, everyone hung out and talked and had so much fun together. Chris is a very cool and positive guy in addition to being an amazing musician! Sloan added another awesome band T-shirt to his collection, and has already listened to the band's cd several times. We will definitely be following Chris and his

In 2001, The City of Raleigh Arts Commission hosted a public art project called the Raleigh Red Wolf Ramble. Many artists worked to create 100 wolves for the project that roamed around the City. The wolf I created with Sloan was called The Sloan Wolf. (what else?) It was co-sponsored by Arts Access and The BTI Center for Performing Arts (Currently Progress Energy Center), and was on display in the lobby of Raleigh Memorial Auditorium for many years. The Sloan Wolf was created to be a public art piece accessible to all members of the public. It features colored beads (over 15,000), turf and other objects so you can feel, not just see, the colors. It includes words in Braille, and a sound feature with three communication switches with Sloan's voice recorded on them. A few years ago, it was donated to Marbles, a downtown Raleigh Children's Museum. It gets a lot of love from all the children visiting the museum, and nine years after being born, is in need of some renovation and rep